The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-11-02


Wait Awee...WhiIe Pretty Women
Build Handsome IIOuses..-Old Sol.
dier's WiIes :. Railroad Builders
WiIes.
associate Reto, med Presbyterian. Oct. o.
DR.. widman was at Williamson last Fri
day night.
the forest is bedccked with the seer and
DR.. Edwards returned to Tallapoosa Mon
day afternoon. ~
Miss Sharp, of Statesville, n. G.. is visiting
Miss Latham.
There was not single resident minister in
Mrs. !. c. Chalmers, OF Winnsboro, is at
Rev. J. N. Young's.
Miss Annie Brlce has opened school at her
mothers residence.
Abbeville Is getting stirred up over the
prospects ofa cotton factory.
Rev. Thos. G. Boyce supplied DIR. Pressly's
pulpit last Sabbath.
Mrs. Laura White, OF Grifiith, n. u, IS
visiting her mother, Mrs. B. B. Grier.
Rev. C. A. Stakely has been called to the
First Baptist church of Washington, ID. G..
Miss NJ. w. Pearson stopped over at West
minister on her way from Atlanta, 10 visit
friends.
Mrs. Watson and Miss Mosely. of Phoenix,
are visiting the family OF Mr., William Power:
The Mansion House in Greenville was sold
last week for $4,000. No change In the
Most Of our Atlanta excursonists are back.
Some Of them delighted with the trip, others
disguised.
During Fair week there will be meeting OF
old settler farmers, composed of three dele
gates from each county.
The Columbia Register has gradually 'devel
oped into one of the best da.lies In the coun-
try. 1t Is always fresh and newsy.
| Miss Mary Henry. of Due West. S. C., las
bought two lots In Tallapoosa, Ga, and will
erect a fine residence in the near future:
dntrd nf tho
Exposition with her uncle and aunt Rev.
and Mrs. c. L. Todd, at Doraville, Ga. She
returned Tuesday last.
The theological student have been amusing
| themselves while the professors were attend
| Ing Synod by re-abeing the books In the
Theological Seminary.
Have you any Of the Literary, Society books
a %ond onsKder qhs sTcat
you would send them in now.
Judge Douthit, of Greenvjlle, died suddenly
on the 18th of this month. He was Judge Of
Probate for the last twenty years. and Master
ever since the office was created liz 1873
Mr.. JAS I. Pearson, after few days at
home under the gentle treatment of loving
mother, soon overcome his indsposiiion--
returning to his place Of employment last RI
day afternoon at Anderson.
A merchant in Laurens has received an
order from New York syrup dealer FOR hve
hundred barrels of sorghum. In few month
this will probably be reshipped South as
DR.. l.. P. Kennedy has again been promoted.
He is now on the ambulance corps OF ST.
Gatherings Hospital, located at Brooklyn, e;
D., n. Y. He secured the position by speeln
examination.
Mr.. John Strothers, venerable Scotchman
of seventy years of age, made application be-
fore Judge Witherspoon in Columbia last
week, for naturalization papers. He didn't
seem discouraged when he was told that he
would have to wait two years longer before
the papers could be taken out.
T1rN rNIf,
There are 90 members OF that profession In
Charleston, and three in Horny County.
Abbevile has thirty only three counties
in the State have more.
substantial citizens, Is stopping at the Tala.
pcosa hotel. The Doctor comes on prospect
ing tour, and we trust he may. see his way
clear 10 locate in our midst -IallGpoosd
Journal.
Mr. w. r. Cowan sustained quite q painful
injury to his back on his way to Atlanta
He stepped off the seven-foot platform al
Covinglon, Ga, where he stopped over night
to avoid the crowded train. He Is improv-
During the fnir at Marion there will be a
Joint discussion on the Fair grounds between
Capt b. II. Tillman and Chancellor w. D.
Such discussion at the State Fair would be
an attraction.
Among the fancy articles exhibited at the
Piedmont Exposition Of Atlanta, Is q quilt
con tains l6, go pieces. Mrs. Dial Is "a years
old and has worked on the quilt at various
times for thirty years.
pose of its South Carlina system Of roads.
President Alexander says the former man
agement bought them, thinking they. would
be valuable feeders. But instead they
frequently give the Richmond and Danville
A Spartanburg citizen recommends that
the farmers plant their, poor, worn out lands
The acorns will amply reply the trouble and
expense. For fatienng hogs they are very
valuable.
Capt. j. II. Wren has finished his work on
country to build dwelling for Mr. VIM
Pruitt, and when that is finished he goes back
to WILLIAMSON to build a dwelling for Mr.
GosSett, which he has contracted for.
County, is drawing pension as q widow OF a
soldier who fought in the Revolutionary war.
Investigation proves that Mrs. Neill was but
twenty years Of age when she was married to
her husband, who, at that time, was FULLY
eighty.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis and their daughter Miss
Winnie to visit Columbia during the State
than two hundred Of the most prominent
citizens. a drawing feature. Senator Hamp-
ton has been invited 10 preside.
Kelly Moore, q contractor on the three C's
road, working ten miles below Rock Hill.
skipped last Friday night with 81 800 that he
hnd drawn to pay of his hands. The hands
will not lose their pay but the merchants who
credited him for considerable amount are
likely to be the losers.
Gen. Hemphill says In the Mrtiiun,, that nt
the coming session Of the Legislature he Will
have a temperance bill free from the obJec.
tions that defeated the measure In Anderson
and I.aurens. The Generals constituents are
glad TO hear that he Is going To bring his legis-
lative abilities 10 bear OH this most important
question,
The Charlotte Chronicle, in q very plausible
cent wreck on the Air Line rest on the should
on the employees. The conductor and engn-
eer are to be blamed, but ccnsured. 1t claims
that under the old order the wreck would
never have happened. II states the case
thus: "Under the old order of things Engineer
Harris and Conductor RevCil would have been
instructed to meet and pnss No. 81 Mt Greer's
station. But under the new system their
order were rs follows: "NO 81 Is running four
hours and twenty minutes behind schedule
time, from Greenvillc 10 Charlotte" This
notice was received hy Engineer Harris at
Spartanburg. The regular time for 81 to leave
Green Vile was :01 a. NJ, To this four hours
and twenty minutes had to be added. Then
the conductor and engineer, by the dim lights
Of their lanterns, had opull out Mt voluminOus
sheet containing the schedule OF ten trains.
locate each train. particularly the one first
coming to meet them, make their calculations
and take their own responsibility for the con-
sequences.
Death OF Mrs. Orville Calhoun.